We'll open, but we don't want your business ...............

Just wondering....

If I park at the nearby bank, use their ATM, spend the money at the casino.... will either place validate my parking?

In order to cross attending a casino on opening day off my list, I visited Lone Butte Casino, local casino in the greater Phoenix area, on opening day. Although I was able to park onsite, it felt like I parked a mile away. The casino was busy, every machine was being played, and it was difficult to get a sense of the games offered. If one isn't an invited guest, I'd recommend waiting until the next day to visit.

I give props to Horseshoe Cincinnati for arranging for offsite parking. I see this as no different than attending a baseball game at Chase Field. Some season ticket holders have parking passes that enable them to park in the garage that connects yo the stadium. Everyone else needs to park somewhere else.

I can't believe a casino would treat customers differently. What next? Maybe player cards with different tier statuses?

Maybe if they just had a private opening for invited guests only the first night it would solve the issue.

Yup to this. ^^^

I kinda thought that was how it usually worked for the first or "soft" opening. Then a separate opening to the general public. This sounds like greed, trying to do both on the same night.

They invited twelve or fifteen thousand folks two or three days ago for an eight hour trial run of gaming and i can't imagine what a mess that was. There are only 2300 slots and 87 table games in this place. That works out to less than 3000 gaming positions. From what i saw on the news that night there were at least 10,000 to 12,000 people there at the same time.

Makes me glad i'm under the radar and gave up my diamond card two years ago and avoided an invitation. The wife an i will pay a visit on tues. or weds. maybe. Depends on the weather.

Anyway, my point is this. If you are going to have a private party so big that it fills a 6,000 car garage and the outside ground lots to the point that any other player has to park farther down in town and take a shuttle to your casino and then wait out in the cold to enter you should just wait till the party is over to open and not insult the other players like that.

There is another well established casino just 15 minutes down the road that is bigger and is finally in competition mode. The newness will wear off quick enough Horseshoe!

So what are you bitching about then?

Picture me smiling while i type this.

I'm not "bitching" about anything. I am simply commenting on what i see as a bad business practice. This whole process of acquiring casino gambling in Ohio has been a political fiasco from the start and the people of the state have had it shoved down our throats and rammed up our asses in the worse possible way. So when i see them further insult the everyday player, the ones who will make or break the deal as it is, by having them slapped in the face so blatantly like this, i find it worthy of comment.

The voters of Ohio were blinded by Penn Gaming's ad campaign that promised jobs and prosperity in a time of fiscal downturn and rampant unemployment. They had it written into the STATE CONSTITUTION that only four casino's would be allowed. Two owned by them and two owned by the bills co-sponser Dan Gilbert, owner of the Caveliers. Pretty fair huh? No bids or anything. They even determined themselves how much they would pay the state for the priviledge of building the casino's. Does anything sound fair about to you?

The party will be attended by all the local smilers and backslappers that were a part of this process. The ones who were on the tv every week convincing the voters what a wonderful deal this was. I was telling everyone i could how badly we were going to get screwed.

And to answer your question, where i got my info at? Why the spokesperson for the casino who was explaining why there would be no parking available opening night was quite helpful with the reason why.

Oh, just an afterthought. On the politics of the whole thing. The location of the casino is in the crime and murder capital of our fair town, a section know as "Over the Rhine". It was always just a huge parking lot for folks working downtown. It was owned by a local politician and mover and shaker. He of course pushed REAL hard to get the gambling bill passed. In this bill it stipulated that the casino MUST be built on this land ONLY.

He made a tidy profit.

Sounds like Ohio is the problem.
lol

I hate it when casinos are rammed up my ass.